July 27, 2007
Good Samaritans Nab East Village/LES Sex Attacker
Thank goodness for good neighbors! There's a fascinating story behind the arrest of Asuncion DeJesus-Garcia, who is suspected of at least three sexual assaults in the Lower East Side and East Village. It turns out that the two people who noticed him on Wednesday actually recognized him because they helped stop the July 13 attack on East 12th Street!
Fifty-three-year-old Marina Hartell and her boyfriend, 55-year-old Pedro Zevallos, who work in a neighborhood deli, had been in their van on July 13 when they heard a scream from a building. They saw a man choking the woman; Hartell told the Daily News, "He had his arm around her neck and her dress was above her head and her arm was bleeding badly." Zevallos used a bar to break a window and enter the building, but the attacker got away.
Yesterday, when the couple was going to get ice cream during a break, they saw DeJesus sitting at Avenue A and East 12th Street and confronted him. Zevallos told CW 11's News at Ten that DeJesus attacked him and tried to get away, but Hartell borrowed a phone from a stranger to call 911. Hartell said, "I recognized him right away: his teeth, his yellow eyes."
DeJesus had worked as a dishwasher at a restaurant on First Avenue and 11th Street, but his father said he recently lost the job. From the Post: "Authorities said Asuncion DeJesus would finish work early in the morning and roam the East Village on his bicycle looking for victims."
You can see the CW 11 News at Ten segment by looking for the news video "Suspected Sexual Predator Off The Streets" (if you have Windows Media Player, you can try this direct link).
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Hartell said, "I recognized him right away: his teeth, his yellow eyes."
Yellow?
Kudos to Hartell and Zevallos. That is the kind of good citizenship that all too often goes lacking in our fair city. The mayor should stop pestering other states about their respect for our basic right to self-defence, come home and give this couple the key to the city.
Jeez, at 5'2'', my little sister could strong-arm this fella.
Yellow Eyes? IT'S SCUTT FARKAS!
Thank god they caught this Mexican.
I hope he gets so much more than just a slap on the wrist.
Never mind thanking god..thank the good samaratins. Unless you believe it was all part of god's great plan for these women to be sexually assaulted???
Yellow eyes! So help me God, he had yellow eyes!
Yellow Eyes? IT'S SCUTT FARKAS!
[4] Posted by: cwbuecheler | July 27, 2007 12:35 PM
HAHAHAHAHHAHAH!
I wonder if jaundice makes people sex offenders. good lord, i'm glad they caught this little degenerate.
Hey Midtown... Don't take it literally as me "thanking GOD"... it's just an expression... you probably didn't understand because you're also a Mexican. Let me make it more clear for you... Gracias a Dios!
#10- Huh? Are you also #5 by any chance?
Heh #10 - you suck at logical reasoning - go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
mexicans stole my bicycle, murdered my mother and raped my father. Mexicans suck.
I guess no one wanted to f*ck with de Jesus
*runs off stage*
Woo! I'm glad a couple of people understood my reference. Also, I'm glad this dude's off the streets and I think it's awesome that he was caught by regular New Yorkers just trying to protect their neighborhood.
re: yellow eyes - its the first thing I thought of too! in my top 5 movies, haha.
yay for good neighbors, I really do heart ny.
LOL, [14].
Fricking creep. I'd like to knock his head into a brick wall. Repeatedly.
Is anybody sure that this is the guy?
Looks like the type of person to do something Like that ! Posted by; "Still Not Amused"
*Extends middle finger to the Gothamist Gestapo*